WT #2 pg. 516
I don’t believe any nation would want to be ruled under an authoritarian government, especially if they held a fair and open election. Also we wouldn’t know if the election was truly fair and open unless the United States controlled every aspect of the election to make sure there was nothing illegal and immoral happening. But this will never happen because you can’t control every aspect, somewhere in the process will be tainted. There will be threats to people and the authoritarians would keep people from going to the polling place. There wouldn’t be a way to control who and how many times they voted because of the non proper, nonexistent, or fake identification of the citizens.
But if there were to be an election where it was held fair and open and the results came back that they chose an authoritarian type government. Then I believe the United States should respond by accepting and congratulating them on their choice and advise them that there are other types of governments to have. Respond by saying we respect their decision and we will stop pushing freedom and democracy on them. We still have a job to do in the middle east and its not close to being over, but our presence in your government aspect will be minimal. Ofcourse will still have to be a “watchdog” and make sure they are not planning terrorist attacks or developing nuclear weapons. But our push on their freedom will be cut.
The conflict in the Middle East has been going on for a long time now. There is still not an end in sight and there shouldn’t be until we are done with the job. Most of the citizens in Iraq and Afghanistan want more freedom then they had but I believe we wore out our welcome a while ago. They might just agree to accept an authoritarian government to get us out of their business and country sooner. Whatever happens our government needs to make sure that we (the United States) come out better than when we went into this conflict. Or all these years, deaths, and money would be a waste and for nothing. Even though we surged into Iraq and Afghanistan to bring freedom/ democracy, fight terrorism, and “discover” weapons of mass destruction. There are deeper reasons why were there. When we are finished in Iraq, I believe they will be on their way to a functioning, free, democratic country.
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I completely agree with what youre saying in that whatever the countries involved decide, it is in our best interest to let them go with that for the time being. We cannot force a government on them, it must be decided for themselves. Therefore we will step back, not foolishly, but to a decent distance so that they might govern themselves and we can protect ourselves from any terrorist acts.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure what you meant by we must come out better than we did going into this conflict. If you mean the United States as a country must have improved when we remove our presence, I feel that will be a hard goal to attain. But if you mean that we will have somehow improved the situation in the Middle East, done more good than harm, then I feel that is a very attainable goal, and one I strongly hope for.